Writing rambles.
More of the writing meme. I know I posted the first day after midnight, but I'm still counting it as yesterday.
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
Haha. Well, with the Corlionis, there are sixteen main characters, plus thirteen more semi-main characters, plus tons and tons and tons of minor characters. Seriously, when you have a guy, his wife, his eight girlfriends, and his nineteen kids, plus all their kids, spouses, aunts, uncles, cousins, and so forth, well, the number of people adds up pretty quickly. I believe we did the math at one point and realized we had created something like 200-some named characters. And that was just at that point in time; I have no doubt that it has increased since then.
My other projects are more reasonable: for Lucy, she, Daniel, and Lucille are the main characters, and then there are the seven demons on the Board of Demons and the seven angels on the Committee of Angels who are minor. Also, Death, Life, War, Peace, Pestilence, Health, Famine, and Bounty, who drop in from time to time. Oh, and Andrew, too; he's their Agent friend and eventually becomes Death's boyfriend.
Kansas City has a much smaller cast: Alex is the main protagonist, with Vincent along for the ride, and Lucille on their side behind the strings. Sam drops in to help them, as well. Then there's Mark, the antagonist, and Kyle, an assassin who works for him. There is also a ~secret character who gets revealed later on in the story, and ends up being pretty important to the plot. Throw in a few more side characters, and that's about it.
The Untitled Poly Story (I really need to think of a title for this one) has Mary, Anne, and Brian, making up family number one; there's also minor characters related to them, in Mary's mother, Abigail, all Mary's siblings, then Anne's family, Brian's brother and father, plus Mary and Brian's son. Family two is Rachel, Greg, Jon, and Charlie, plus all their relatives (except for Rachel: she's an only child and her dad is dead).
It seems I tend to gravitate to a core group of characters with sprawling, massive amounts of related characters, be it by blood or other convention. Huh.
As for preferring males or females: probably females, because strong, complex female characters are sadly kind of rare, and I enjoy writing them. That's not to say I don't also enjoy writing the strong, complex men, because I do; it's only a slight preference.
I decided to clean the living room, so that's done now. Yay, our house is clean. Well, except for the dog's room (which I'm leaving to Sylvia) and the basement (and I picked it up some), but close enough. Anyway, I'm going back to The Avengers.
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
Haha. Well, with the Corlionis, there are sixteen main characters, plus thirteen more semi-main characters, plus tons and tons and tons of minor characters. Seriously, when you have a guy, his wife, his eight girlfriends, and his nineteen kids, plus all their kids, spouses, aunts, uncles, cousins, and so forth, well, the number of people adds up pretty quickly. I believe we did the math at one point and realized we had created something like 200-some named characters. And that was just at that point in time; I have no doubt that it has increased since then.
My other projects are more reasonable: for Lucy, she, Daniel, and Lucille are the main characters, and then there are the seven demons on the Board of Demons and the seven angels on the Committee of Angels who are minor. Also, Death, Life, War, Peace, Pestilence, Health, Famine, and Bounty, who drop in from time to time. Oh, and Andrew, too; he's their Agent friend and eventually becomes Death's boyfriend.
Kansas City has a much smaller cast: Alex is the main protagonist, with Vincent along for the ride, and Lucille on their side behind the strings. Sam drops in to help them, as well. Then there's Mark, the antagonist, and Kyle, an assassin who works for him. There is also a ~secret character who gets revealed later on in the story, and ends up being pretty important to the plot. Throw in a few more side characters, and that's about it.
The Untitled Poly Story (I really need to think of a title for this one) has Mary, Anne, and Brian, making up family number one; there's also minor characters related to them, in Mary's mother, Abigail, all Mary's siblings, then Anne's family, Brian's brother and father, plus Mary and Brian's son. Family two is Rachel, Greg, Jon, and Charlie, plus all their relatives (except for Rachel: she's an only child and her dad is dead).
It seems I tend to gravitate to a core group of characters with sprawling, massive amounts of related characters, be it by blood or other convention. Huh.
As for preferring males or females: probably females, because strong, complex female characters are sadly kind of rare, and I enjoy writing them. That's not to say I don't also enjoy writing the strong, complex men, because I do; it's only a slight preference.
I decided to clean the living room, so that's done now. Yay, our house is clean. Well, except for the dog's room (which I'm leaving to Sylvia) and the basement (and I picked it up some), but close enough. Anyway, I'm going back to The Avengers.